PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Dream Interpretation, Fortune-Telling, Melanoma
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Prophetic dream is a miracle god suspends normal operation of nature. Horoscope don"t seem to involve divine intervention maybe prophetic dreams are similar. But then house is prophesy different than science. On divination is a fictional dialogue between and his brother quintus- 1st part why it is real, 2nd part why it is not. Belief in prophesy is reasonable supported by testimony, supported by metaphysics. Claim is plausible, source is reliable , source reports their actual experience. Belief in god, fate(determinism) and nature supports beleief on divinanation. Prophesy seems to presuppose determinism if future sint fixed. When a causes b. it produces sign f deviners (e. g. dream interoerters) recongixe the signs. Connection between sign and event is obscure. But if determisims it rtue, prophesy is useless. It seems to rob prophesy of its value. Is it reasonable to belove that dreams can reveal the future. Problems 1 determinsi shows prophesy is possible not that it actually happens.
